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Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Everyone wants to be an influencer. We all want to learn how to help ourselves and others change behavior. And yet, in spite of the fact that we routinely attempt to do everything from lose weight to improve quality at work, few of us have more than one or two ideas about how to exert influence. For the first time, Influencer brings together the breakthrough strategies of contemporary influence masters.

The TenX Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

Extreme success, by definition, lies beyond the realm of normal action. If you want to achieve extreme success, you can’t operate like everybody else and settle for mediocrity. You need to remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success. The 10X Rule shows you how!

Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone

You’ve got a business colleague who’s hostile...a client who’s furious...a staffer who’s deeply cynical—how do you get people to do what you want in tough situations like these? In Just Listen, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible.“Here's the challenge,” Mark says.

Unstuff Your Life: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good

Arguably the most organized man in America, Andrew J. Mellen has created unique, lasting techniques for streamlined living, bringing order out of chaos for a client list that includes attorneys, filmmakers, and even psychologists. With Unstuff Your Life! he puts his powerful program in the hands of his widest audience yet.

Losing your memory? Can't focus or concentrate? Do you have brain fog or tire easily? Have you lost your zest for life or motivation? Do people tell you this is all a normal part of aging? If so, your brain may be growing old too fast, or degenerating. Modern diets, a stressful lifestyle, and environmental toxins all take their toll on the brain. This doesn't just happen to seniors - brain disorders and degeneration are on the rise for young and old alike. The good news is the brain is extremely adaptable and wants to get well.

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. Yet there really is no definitive guide to venture capital deals. Nobody understands this better than authors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. For more than seventeen years, they've been involved in hundreds of venture capital financings, and now, with Venture Deals, they share their experiences in this field with you.

The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time

After more than 5 years of intensive work the definitive guide to the 80/10/10 Diet is here! Get your hands on the latest audiobook by Dr. Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life One Luscious Bite at a Time. If you have struggled with staying raw, would like to lose weight, or change your life for the better, look no further than this groundbreaking audiobook.

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, Rockefeller Habits 2.0

It's been over a decade since Verne Harnish's best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business.

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly

The benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and real-world examples of success The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international best seller with more than 300,000 copies sold in over 25 languages. It offers a step-by-step action plan for harnessing the power of modern marketing and PR to communicate with buyers directly, raise visibility, and increase sales.

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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

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Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No - it’s just their developing brain calling the shots! In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the best-selling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson demystify the meltdowns and aggravation, explaining the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.

Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue

What’s the one common factor among entrepreneurs who create and grow successful online businesses today? Attention. They know what kind they need. They know how to get it. They know how to maintain it. And they know how to make it pay over the long term. Want your business to get the high quality customer engagement it needs to thrive? Attention! This Book Will Make You Money is the only guide you need - providing you with a complete online toolbox for bringing in the customer traffic you want....

The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Nerds: Once a tormented subrace of humans... Now captains of industry! You don’t have to be a stereotypical geekwad to appreciate the tenets of Nerdism and to make your innate talents for overanalysis and hyper-self-awareness work for you instead of against you. Join Nerd superstar Chris Hardwick as he offers his fellow “creative-obsessives” the crucial information needed to come out on top in the current Nerd uprising. Success is the most satisfying - and legal - form of vengeance there is. And you can achieve it when you follow the Nerdist Way,

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

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What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor. In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

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Publisher's Summary

You used to need a big ad budget to get your message across. Not anymore! Thanks primarily to the Internet, a world of free and inexpensive tactics exists for spreading the word about your business. Free Marketing delivers more than one hundred marketing ideas to help small business owners and marketers generate new revenue—with little or no marketing budget. Using both Internet-based and creative offline ideas, you'll discover ways to turn your top customers into your unpaid sales force, get your competitors to help you promote your new products, and build a foundation for your business. Free Marketing offers simple, actionable advice to help you:

I have been through dozens of these how-to business books and most of them are excellent, some are not. This book is already my favorite. The level of knowledge and range of information offered in this one book could really fill several books. Very entertaining, full of ideas and tips for any entrepreneur. I will listen to this book several times and learn something new every time. AAA+++

I have listened to tons of audio books on Internet marketing, and while many have been very helpful, this one is far and away the best I have listened too. I have listened to it at least a dozen times and every time I find one more way to use the info in my own business. Good stuff.

This book is full of very useful information, but don't try to read it on your commute. There's just to may things that go past as your just listening. I need to just be at home, maybe with a pen and paper or at the computer with this book. I listen to a lot of audio books with my hour and a half commute each day and I started to listen to this one on that commute, but decided it';s best to leave this one fore a time when I can really listen.

Have you listened to any of Sean Pratt’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Never heard before

Any additional comments?

Started off with the mention of God, and I thought I had bought another sermon disguised as a book, but it lasted only a minute and got down to business. I do not often find value in many business related books, but this for me was an exception. Added bonus, was also narrated well.

Maybe. The material in the Audible book goes by so fast. I was encouraged when the Author said he listed resources on his website. Several busted links on that site but only a few resources and great deal of pressure to sign up for paid content. That's not what the book teaches. I like it when the added material pdf is delivered by Audible with the download. Not this time.

Would you be willing to try another book from Jim Cockrum? Why or why not?

Not an Audible edition. Maybe a Kindle version. With the Audible edition, you would need to sit a take notes. Audible books are books on the go.

Which character – as performed by Sean Pratt – was your favorite?

This is non fiction. I've listened to a number of Sean's narrations and his style grows on you.

Was Free Marketing worth the listening time?

Yes, but now that I've visited a number of the author's websites, I'm not sure he practices what he teaches.

Any additional comments?

Lately, I've been working with web marketing in the online real estate arena. I've learned that I don't like high pressure sales techniques there. In listening to this book, I was hearing that you build a relationship and trust with a potential customer without high pressure. The author teaches you to offer valued material for free and when you do sell something have an incredible money back offer. That's not high pressure. I like that message. As with all books, you always learn something. Sometimes it is what the author teaches and sometimes it is what you believed before you read the book. In this case, it was a little of both.

If you could sum up Free Marketing in three words, what would they be?

valuable marketing ideas

Any additional comments?

This is an excellent audio book, full of specific ideas that can be utilized and implemented quickly and for little or no cost. The content is current and the ideas are relevant to how to grow your business and attract new clients. I've bought numerous audio books over the years, and many are either short on details or after awhile become boring. This book kept my interest and had so many good ideas, that I went back and listened to it again. I told one of my friend's about the book, and he called me shortly after purchasing the book, full of excitement about the content and the ideas he had learned from the book.If you need more customers or want to find a low cost way to promote your services in today's competitive environment, buy this audio book and listen to it now.

I didn't like the Americanism of this book and the 'self help' 'you can do it too' style. However, I knew to expect these things when I downloaded the book - the cover says it all - and therefore I can't really criticise.

If you can get around the Americanism then the actual content is really very solid and there are some genuinely useful nuggets of information. I have found myself going back over favourite sections, taking notes and then trying to implement the advice.

Overall, while this was not an overly enjoyable listen I can't really find fault with the quality of the content.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

Mr

Chester, United Kingdom

1/9/13

Overall

"Great if you want to me an email marketer!"

The start of this book raises some good ideas. However it then seems to descend into only talking about building up lists of email addresses you can sell to. The author speaks about those 'landing pages' with 'register now for our mailing list' that seem to be in complete abundance on the web.

The book is also littered with plugs for his products, websites and mailing lists. In parts I really did feel that I'd spent money on a 9 hour advert for his goods!

If you're looking to try and compete in the crowded market selling PDFs and ebooks via a mailing list, then this is the book for you! If you're working in any other industry then the core of this book probably won't satisfy you.

The author makes several points in the book about monitoring the web for comments about his products, so I'm sure he'll spot this review. Sorry Jim, you seem like a decent guy but it just wasn't for me!

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

OLIVIER

LONDON, United Kingdom

4/13/13

Overall

"Good book but audio format is not appropriate"

This is an impressive book on low-cost marketing with great insights and great resources. However, there are two shortfalls:

1. The target audience is mainly self-employed people working from home but is overcomplicated for them and not very well adapted to small businesses. At times, it makes us believe in miracles too

2. The audio format is not adequate. Indeed, there are many references to tools & websites: an ebook would be better.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

S. J. Norfield

Cambridge, UK

2/2/13

Overall

"Ideal for a small startup"

I run a small business and was looking to give it a bit of a kick start with some marketing.

In a nutshell, this book is perfect for those who want to be given a pool of free (or nearly free) ways to get their name out there. A lot of it is common sense, but of course, its only commmon sense once someone tells you.....

One problem with a lot of the audiobooks is the readers accent, but this one is absolutely fine, and easy on the ear.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Mark

United Kingdom

2/14/12

Overall

"Logical simple techniques everyone can apply"

Good narration of a well laid out book containing sensible advice and genuinely free or no cost ways of growing your business online. That is to say free of third party costs. Jim makes it perfectly clear that these are not get rich quick ideas and rightly so. The models he describes are clearly founded selling information but the ideas are equally transferable and applicable to other sectors. @upfinder

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

A. Pulley

UK

2/4/13

Overall

"Teaching marketing to babies"

The book has some nice ideas within it but I found it painful to read due to the writing style, which after a while felt like a succession to listen to how clever this next idea is and how clever I am to have thought of it and the narrator who speaks as though talking to a group of thick children. I like books like these if nothing else as a way of taking in a load of potential ideas of which one or two might be things I'd never considered. However the problem with 101 type books is that they often have to fill them out with crud to hit the magic number on the cover and that combined with the authors self promotion and aren't I clever style really didn't work for me.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Rob

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

4/4/12

Overall

"Basic and Brilliant"

One of the best books that I've listed to in the last 12 months. It's current, honest and full of really simple but easy to implement tips. Cracking stuff!

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Geoff

Ponteland, United Kingdom

3/6/12

Overall

"Brilliant Book a must buy"

This book is Brilliant it is packed full of amazing useful hints and strategies to help grow your business in the best way possible (FREE). Jim Cockrum truly shows his expertise in this book and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to be more effective with there marketing strategies.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

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